The Blockade Runner — page 91: what you’re looking at

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92 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. CHAPT HER X1f. THE FOXHOUND PUTS TO SEA. Mowrray’s rage abated and he felt like a different man, when, a few days afterward, he learned of the Swiftwing’s safe arrival at Nassau. She had weathered gales and escaped the vigilant Federal cruisers, but beyond this Mowbray knew nothing. Nobody could relate for him the terrible experiences of her captain and crew. After all, thought the Southerner, the reports of the privateer’s condition might have been exaggerations, coined by his enemies for the purpose of disturbing his peace of mind. He was not going to believe that the ship was a. shoddy affair, built to be sold in port by the Bardolphs, who left Wilmington six hours after the sale. Flash Gilmor almost fulfilled Captain Powell’s pre- diction that he would be out on the streets the day after the privateer’s departure. A few days afterward, his indisposition suddenly left him, and his friends—the schemer had friends—saw his face again. The reader will recall a part of Norah’s letter to young Bentham in which the girl mentioned the Fox- hound’s departure in the night. It was true that Captain Powell had lvaed his =a GOlMlGOOOKSACO 3